Hi Rob,
You know a while ago you did that reading list application that used RDFa? I'm trying to collect use cases for the HTML Data Task Force, and I think it illustrates an important pattern of use that we might otherwise not capture, namely a site using HTML data for itself to consume using scripts.
I wonder if you'd do me a big favour and do just a really short summary of it under these headings:
title
a short name that can be used to refer to the use case
background
any necessary information about the domain of the use case that
helps to explain it
description
how HTML data is used in the use case, with either embedded
examples of the markup or pointers to material that otherwise
illustrates it
discussion
what makes this use case different from others? why was markup
used in the way described rather than an alternative?
implementations
pointers to implementations that generate and/or consume HTML
data in this form, or ideas for such implementations
or point me to some other write-up from which we can create a summary.
I know it was done a few years ago. The one big question that I think people would have about it now is whether it would be preferable, assuming use of HTML5, to have had the data provided using data-* attributes instead. Are there any places in the markup where that approach wouldn't have worked, or reasons for using markup that can be read by consumers other than your script? If the latter, which consumers did you have in mind?
Thanks ever so much in advance,
Jeni
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Jeni Tennison
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